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Along a short stretch of Argyle Street, before the road melts into the West End, painted people stop passers-by in their tracks....

Winner of Refugee Week Media Award 2013 Sitting on a battered couch in a West End church beneath a poster of Glasgow, Michael Smith talks...

Every Autumn, schools, businesses and churches around Glasgow collect tins of food to give to the city's homeless and disadvantaged...

The aroma of chai and charcoal and the clink of teacups are a source of comfort for many in the west end. In a tiny tearoom overlooking...

"Laughter is the best tonic in the world. Without it what would you do?" says James Coyle, sipping a cup of tea. Nestled side-by-side in...

It's just a three-inch piece of folded card to most, a throwaway leaflet covered in phone numbers. To other people, the tiny booklet is a...

Although given the moniker Dear Green Place, it's looming tenement blocks, high rises and miles of pavement that knit our city together....

The street-corner stereotype of prostitutes leaning into car windows is becoming outdated. Glasgow's sex trade is moving off the street,...

Most '90s kids have, at one time, moonsaulted from an armchair onto an unsuspecting sibling, or choke-slammed one of their stuffed...

In the streets of Dublin, statues of skeletal refugees, their heads cowed, pay silent tribute to a generation tragically lost. Their...

Tucked away on Tontine Lane, the cinema-sign artwork of a homegrown Turner prize winner flickers to an audience of none. Empire, the...

"Opera is all about storytelling. When people come and see it they get absolutely wrapped up in the drama of the storytelling. "The music...

"This is a rough and ready gym by the way, none of your LA Fitness or whatever you're used to." Danny Gray's warning as we entered...

Voltaire and Rousseau is an eclectic bookshop with a clientele to match. Foraging amongst the endless stacks of second-hand books,...

The East End landscape juxtaposes its jarring past and future: decaying high rises awaiting demolition to one side, the gleaming new Sir...

"Do not let daily to-ing and fro-ing, to earn what we need to keep going, prevent what you once felt when wee - hopeful and free." So...

Article originally written and published for STV Local stv.tv "Here's neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all, and another...